Okay, so I know it's 5 pm on a Friday and there's absolutely no point in posting at 5 pm on a Friday but I cannot stand leaving that pointless, neurotic post up all weekend and anyway I spent all afternoon scanning and it always takes so much longer than I think to produce four minutes' worth of entertainment but what I am trying to say is that I updated the When You Marry gallery with two more chapters. Newlyweds and Money Matters. New additions start here.

Also, a reader found the original 1945 edition online for a DOLLAR, and I ordered it and I was all excited but then I got an email from the store and they said that it had already been sold but they were trying to find another copy, and then it arrives and I was all excited AGAIN, but then I realized it was the 1953 edition, not the 1945, and I composed this long complicated email to the store about why this wasn't right (especially since it is virtually word-for-word IDENTICAL to the 1962 version, which means all the crap in the forward about being completely re-written and expanded for today's modern American teen-agers was LIES, NOTHING BUT LIES)...and then I stopped and realized I was about to really confuse some used bookstore's poor summer intern and spend five bucks to ship the book back across the country just so I could get my DOLLAR back. So...if you're a friend of mine who plans to get married anytime soon, well. Mwa ha ha, baby. Have I got an awesome wedding present for you. Yes, indeed.

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It's OK because I am still here waiting for posts on Friday nights at 5pm! It's actually 3pm where I live and have 2 more hours of work to kill. (Fridays are boring.) You are welcome to keep me in mind when you are in this conundrum again. Thanks!!

5:16 here, but both bosses are gone for the day and I'm fooling around on Facebook and stuff, and I am ALWAYS thrilled to find a new post on amalah.com and I do occasionally check you out on weekends and if there's nothing new (which there never is) I just read the old stuff again and admire the babies and I guess what this very long sentence is telling you is that there is always a point to your posts and feel free to post 10 times a day if you want, I'll be here to read them.

well, it's 11:18pm on a Friday night here in europe, and me and the baby both have stopped-up noses and I just fed her and wiped her nose (HORROR! HOW COULD I?! NOOOO!!) then put her back down and came to check in online one last time...and I'm just thrilled to bits to get to read 2 amalah posts in one day, AND new chapters of the book! whee! :-)

well, it's 11:18pm on a Friday night here in europe, and me and the baby both have stopped-up noses and I just fed her and wiped her nose (HORROR! HOW COULD I?! NOOOO!!) then put her back down and came to check in online one last time...and I'm just thrilled to bits to get to read 2 amalah posts in one day, AND new chapters of the book! whee! :-)

Um...it's 11:30 p.m. where I am - what a nice surprise just as I was about to log off to have such a good laugh to start the weekend. That and I want to be Mrs. Canny so I can afford a mop to go with my aluminum foil. Ah, the dreams!

I'm laughing at the advice on p. 189 about a couple living on a husband's income and saving the wife's--it's the exact advice that my pastor gave my husband and I in 2003 when we went to meet with him about having him marry us! When I presented him with the scenario of a wife earning more than her husband, I pretty much blew his mind...

(This was the same meeting at which I learned far more about his sex life with his wife than I ever wanted to in my life. Topics discussed included sexual favors in exchange for vacuuming, the ideal night to have sex (not Friday!) and not complaining--at least until the next day--if one's husband was too rough during sex.)

(And yeah, that meeting was the proverbial final nail in the whole pretending to even have any actual connection to organized religion...)

Anyway...perhaps he had his *own* copy from which he drew such great wisdom (maybe the 1945 version covers the no sex on Friday thing...)

so, it might not be the same as owning it, but have you checked local libraries or interlibrary loan options through your local library?

i'm writing my dissertation on classroom/educational films, mostly from roughly the same time period as this awesome book (yes, really, and my dissertation will probably have capital letters) and i have found that whenever i need a particularly ridiculous piece of educrap, there is SOME library more than willing to loan it to me if i am willing to deal with the shame of requesting if and picking it up in person at my university's library and trying to avoid eye contact with the undergrad who checks it out for me and asks me, again, if it was a "late night" as they hand me an 80s video about drunk driving or yoga farmers.

(that is what happened a few weeks ago as i ended up with the sold-separately book component of this, which was kind of disappointing except for the part that told me how to break-dance: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4610575102642182602#)

anyway, I hope that helps.

and if you ever need anything, uh, give me an email & I'll see what i can do.

Well, teaching + doctorate program + baby = SO not advised by this book. Because of all that, I'm behind on my DVR and this blog, but I just about lost my shit last night while watching last Sunday's episode of Mad Men, when the risque party girl excitedly announced that she was Swedish. My husband, who does not read this blog (his loss), just stared at me as if I had lost my mind.

While stealing your brother´s idea and attemting to get hold of this book for a friends wedding I found that the 1953 edt. is scanned and available at Internet Libraries, flippable glorious animation and all.. And, it seems the authors are still alive, Evelyn and Ruben, born in 1906 and 1912! That´s staying power!

I feel like I just scored a coup! I found the 1945 version on sale on Amazon, and ordered it for $5.98...but get this, I also get a free "68+ CHAPTER HOLY BIBLE SCRIPTURE MEMORY SONGS CD ABSOLUTELY FREE!" Two gifts for the price of one!